Sentences with phrase «shaped painting called»

Gund decided to give a Frank Stella star - shaped painting called Plant City, which had roosted beside the fireplace, to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in memory of its late director Anne d'Harnoncourt.

Not exact matches

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

By marking the edges of the paintings, she calls attention to their shape as significant, while the nebulous contents of the pictorial field — lacking the order and legibility of the grid — offer few clues to its inner structure and encourage the viewer to lose sight of place.

In the paintings, columnar forms suggested by built - up geometric patterns appear alongside mathematically derived shapes which the artist calls «knot - forms».

Inspired by Ferrara's interiors, windows, shops and strangely shaped biscuits glimpsed in the bakeries of the former Jewish ghetto, De Chirico began painting what he called «metaphysical interiors».

Although these painters started out painting in what was called an objective style, deploying abstract shapes in large space, they soon migrated to using the physical world and representative subjects to experiment with shape, color, texture and temperature in their painting.

Each artist in this exhibition demonstrates a knowledge of painting history from Apfelbaum's references to Robert Motherwell with appropriation of color fields and signifiers, to Sparks use of continually morphing organic shapes that call to the likes of Arshile Gorky.

Her new paintings, much like her previous work, call upon her signature spray gun, pointillism, and geometric shapes.

Woelffer's paintings from this period began using invented symbolism, motifs such as handprints, flag - like stripes, and a shape he called a «mirror» — two convex curves reflecting across a central axis.

As he became more successful, Hawkins began to collage mass media images and eventually found objects into his paintings, and he developed a technique he called «puffing up» a shape: building it up from the support by mixing cornmeal into the enamel paint.

Nature, I find, is where I can think, dream and find the intensity of what we call meaning... It took me some time to realize that abstraction is the only way that I can find a personal vocabulary in painting, through the relationship of shapes, colors and light.

To call these paintings decorative would be short - sighted, for in manipulating the size, shape, and colors of the traditional military fabric — a fabric designed not to be seen — he demonstrated an almost effortless ability to summon up an entire range of art historical references, from Chinese landscapes to Monet's Water Lilies....

Occasionally called «the square man», in his painting series Hommage to the Square (1950 until his death) Albers focused on the effects colors had when confined to a systematic square shape.

Within her well - known series that uses a curved shape — initially called Doubleu by the artist (the spelling of the letter)-- Provosty pairs matte and oil paint into closed forms, opening the space with their reflective surfaces and tenuously squeezed outer edges, implying multiple associations that imply numerous unfixed interpretations.

Made from oil on plasticine clay on panel, the works are flat near - recognizable shapes that intersect painting and sculpture with holes, which the artist calls «orifices, points, or measures of space.»

In New Orleans, just before the two were married, Humphries and Oursler teamed up on a project called Sleepwalk (2002), an endeavor she describes as «painting and video all mixed up together and projected onto billboards or sign shapes.»

Densely hung in the gallery's living room - size main space, the large paintings, which are all seven feet tall and five and a half feet across, swarm you with their edgy, jagged energy... in «Raft,»... the vertical stripes run from top to bottom, with two horizontal sets constrained within shield - like shapes on the left and right, calling to mind Walker's fascination with Aboriginal and African art.

His compositions include Braque - inspired, semi-representational scenes; abstract, allover patterns; color fields; hard - edged geometric shapes; and, recently, what he calls his «crackle paintings,» whose cracked and layered surfaces resemble tree bark or parched ground.

Much as Albers's paintings relied on pattern and modulation, Harris has created meticulous works that she calls «Orbiters» of graphite on paper featuring two radiating shapes side by side.

Morley depicts details: each calibrated digital image as a whole is fragmented into a grid of small squares or «cells» as the artist calls them, from which Morley paints one discrete component at a time, turning the canvas upside down and sideways so that the abstract shape and color tonality of each part is addressed.

Through a unique process she has developed called «mono - transfer», Milhazes applies hand - painted decals directly to the canvas that are sourced from her vast vocabulary of shapes and motifs — among them arabesques, pinwheels and radiating targets.

Stella's works created between 1960 and 1961 call attention to the flat nature of the medium, while breaking with the set parameters of painting through the use of abnormally shaped canvases.

In previous series of such «paintings,» as the artist calls them, Woods has strategically applied black polyhedral shapes, which she likens to the folds of a swaying curtain.

Returning to America, his individual style had a significant impact on the development of Minimal art, Systemic Painting, Hard - edge Painting, Frank Stella's Shaped Canvas genre, and Greenberg's so - called Post-painterly Abstraction, without him actually becoming a «member» of any of these movements.

Kleine Spritztour (Joyride), one of my favorite works from this time, depicts a round object (Baer keeps a shape archive, so - called «carriers,» serving as sliced salami, breasts, etc.) resembling a vinyl record, a breast seen from the front, or an eye smoking a cigarette, while traveling on a gray road toward a smoke storm of lace and painted blur.

Analogies between painting and music had long been common; many thinkers had attempted to codify the supposed expressiveness of colours, lines, and shapes; and more than one fairly ancient sketch might compete for the honour of being called the first abstract picture.

His paintings contain relatively complex shapes suggestive of animate or inanimate forms; Philip Guston (1913 - 80), who had his own highly personal variation, sometimes called «Abstract Impressionism», from which he moved on to a more expressive style in the late 1950s; Adolf Gottlieb, a close contemporary of Clyfford Stills, exploited Surrealist imagery in the 1930s but was also deeply interested in American Indian Art and from this he developed in the 1940s his so - called «Pictographs» characterised by very Freudian imagery.

Elizabeth Murray's works are frenzied cartoon - like shapes while Joanna Pousette - Dart's paintings contain subtle layers of line and color on floating curved wood panels that suggest forms in motion — «line moving through light» and what Dart calls a «visceral interchange with nature».

Hill makes traditional rectangular paintings and shaped canvases she calls «Cut Outs,» which are reminiscent of Elizabeth Murray, Frank Stella, and a heterogeneous set of contemporaries.

Last call of today was an older guy, has a home that is pretty much in great shape just needed some fresh paint inside.

Much attention is paid to repetition of shape, colour and form and trees and shrubs that lead the eye upwards, or «painting the sky» as Chatto calls it.